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The road to Walden, 12 life lessons from a sojourn to Thoreau's cabin, Kevin Dann

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The road to Walden, 12 life lessons from a sojourn to Thoreau's cabin, Kevin Dann

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eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The road to Walden

Oclc number

1019833940

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Kevin Dann

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12 life lessons from a sojourn to Thoreau's cabin

Summary

"The acclaimed author of Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau traverses on foot from Manhattan to the site of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond, often retracing steps walked by Thoreau himself, and unlocks the practical principles of the mystic's life in the woods. When Henry David Thoreau launched his experiment in living at Walden Pond, he began by walking beyond the narrow limits of his neighbors, simply by putting himself at a mile remove from Concord's bourgeois epicenter--and a thousand-mile remove from stasis, complacency, and conformity. Kevin Dann emulates and extends Thoreau's experiment in radical self-education. Alternating between personal anecdotes from his spring 2017 walking pilgrimage and other "traveler" encounters and episodes told by Thoreau, Dann structures his book around 12 "injunctions"--Distillations of seminal stories about overcoming convention and stasis"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Up Broadway: AWAKE! -- "When a feller needs a friend": SPEAK! -- Learn to DANCE! -- Into the vortex: CREATE! -- Captaining Huckleberry parties: SENSE! -- Gone fishin': SYMPATHIZE -- Making worlds: BEFRIEND! -- Fires within and without: BURN! -- In the quiet corner: BREATHE! -- The respectable folks: WHISPER! -- A track repairer in the orbit of the Earth: LOSE! -- TRANSCEND! -- Appendix: 12 steps on the transcendental trail

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Twelve life lessons from a sojourn to Thoreau's cabin

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